Personal Branding

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How can working professionals benefit from crafting their personal brand? As a young professional, you’ve worked for a few years and have some experience to support you. Ideally, you have found work that[more…]

This is the golden rule in networking: Give more than you get. Some people have the misconception that networking is something you do in order to get something. That attitude usually isn’t too successful[more…]

If the list of people you know seems too sparse to support your personal branding goals, your next step is to consider how to meet more people. Simple, right? Well, for some people, it’s simple. For others[more…]

When you begin to develop your personal brand, you assign a new level of importance to networking. You want to include your target market in your networking efforts and be more strategic in how you get[more…]

Whether you’re new to the job market or making the transition from one job to the next, building on the foundation of your personal brand is crucial. In most cases, you can assume that you have about three[more…]

Whether you’re trying to alter your current work situation using your personal brand, or have decided that moving to another company is your best option, you need to know how to negotiate to get what you[more…]

The first place to look for a better position may be right where you are, and your personal branding efforts can help. Assuming that you aren’t being forced out of your current job — you haven’t been laid[more…]

A personal brand helps you stand out in the workplace rather than simply fit in. Try to understand your brand likeability, and pay attention to your behavior on the job to make sure that you don’t tarnish[more…]

These days (unlike in the early 1980s and prior), personal branding means most people realize that they’ll have many jobs during their careers and must continually train to prepare for the changing workplace[more…]

Are you ready to be cast in the workplace with your personal brand as you would be cast in a Hollywood movie? A huge workforce trend is the movement toward a gig economy, one that resembles how the movie[more…]

Personal branding experts agree that it is important to stand out: You need to be visible so that people know you have something unique to offer on the job. Standing out doesn’t mean that you don’t get[more…]

Personal branding is about deciding to take an active role in the direction of your life. You benefit from creating a personal brand because it allows you to self-manage your life and stop depending on[more…]

Your personal brand is more fragile than you may imagine. You need to be vigilant in maintaining the standards that you’ve set for your brand. All it takes is one major mistake, especially one that you[more…]

Everything that you do demonstrates your personal brand, from the way that you represent yourself online to how you treat people at the grocery store. Because a personal brand is built on your true self[more…]

Here are ten tips for how you can distinguish yourself by creating a personal brand — an image and reputation that set you apart — build trust among the people you want to serve; and represent the true[more…]

Volunteers are a noble bunch, and you can tell a lot about a person’s character by how she gives her time in service. Personal branding encompasses all aspects of your life. Therefore, how you volunteer[more…]

Women want to be just as successful as men are, but often they want to succeed in a different way. The generalization goes that women (more than men) tend to embrace the desire to want to live more authentically[more…]

Crafting your own personal brand allows you to show the world your best true self. It helps you align every part of your life with your characteristics, strengths, values, and goals. By doing so, you create[more…]

The executive population was the first to embrace personal branding. The people occupying the chief executive offices recognized early on that if branding worked for a company, it could work for them as[more…]

Your personal brand can help ease the pain of transitioning to a new career by reminding you that at your core, you’re still you and need to be your authentic self. Your reinvented self may be wearing[more…]

Personal branding done well requires an implemented strategy to guide your success. It keeps your career fresh and exciting at a time when many others, during the middle years of their career, are happily[more…]